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1819 Aug. 17
Fallacies

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4 Forms.

Forms

Forms. Another very convenient cloak for abuse
and misgovernment — for foul spots of all sorts and sizes —
is presented by the word forms — by the nebulosity of the : a very paragon of nebulosity.
word forms.

By forms are meant either operation [of government]
or instruments [of government] meaning written instru
-ments: -ments, produced by correspondent operations: the living instruments of government — the members
of the appropriate part of the Official establishment — being,
the operators in both cases, the operators.

Now among these operations, productive or not, some productive, some not
of correspondent instruments, there have doubtless been
some good: and of but moreover, unless the official persons in question have
not been absolutely infallible and impeccable, some
bad. It is required to reconcile men to the bad:
to cause them to be regarded as good: this is the problem:
how shall this problem it be solved?

Take the individual operation itself, and apply
laud to it, the danger is that the laud will not stick:
and the more palpably undeserving of laud the operation
is — in other words the more palpably deserving
of reproach in a word the more palpably mischievous
— the greater the difficulty of making getting it to stick.

Identifier: | JB/104/293/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1819-08-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	293	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles	4 forms
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34264
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